Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-02
Pr,OM WASHINGTON.

TSpecisl Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c.. August ,, 1887.
The President remained at his country
residence to-day, SO as 10 avoid boring visit
ors, among whon are some U. S. Senators
who seem to be under the delusion that if
ia the city it is :. part OF their duty 10 call
upon hiIn every day.
The latest rumOr about the crookedness of
the District of Columbia commissioners is
that the horse that was bought for one of
them out of tho District fund belonged to
Secretary Whitney, was "a very valuable
one, chat the price paid for it would not
have paid in the market for one OF its legs,
and that the commissioner got it as a
quid pro quo.
Mr.. Gouid's denial of The Chinese tele-
graphic report that ne is interested with
Count AIitlsieWicz and others in the estab-
lishment OF an immense bank in China, does
not seem 30 have raised doubt here among
the Counts friends about his reported sue
cess ia the telephonic business.
4 democratic politician from New York +,
here TODAY, saws that unless the democrats
nominate Governor Hill for President next
year. the labor party will assuredly nomi-
nate Presidential candidate, and in New
| York State alone will give him two hundred
thousand votes.
w IL Nelson, of Alexandria, had to-day
patent issued to him for saw setter.
a resident OF Utah. in the city to day.
SAWS TIM: though the Mormons and the Cen
t;l; democrats there are opposed to each
! Ollie: 81; most things. on the admission OF
TIC Territory into the Union as State they
are united, each hoping 10 get the advan-
tnge Of tl,e other after admission.
I'll Dot m,
here says the farmers in all that region of
country ~onll consider themselves blessed
| If they ware ia receipt Of as much money ~
ordinary iaborers in the cities get for wages.
He says the people there We're never poorer
than they ara to-day, and, worse still, That
there is no better outlook for them. He
says tiist though they raise less grain, veg
/ eiables. fruit, dairy products and stock than
I formerly, and catch fewer fish, they net so
little by sending such articles to market
that they deen it hardly worth while to
do so.
Harvey, the forger, will leave next week
! fer the Albany penitentiary, where his es
thetc taste will be subject to constant out
rage. Il has now been definitely deter.
mined that he was not only never demo-
crnt or even a mugwump, but that he
always was an avowed, ultra and offensive
republican, snd never pretended TO be any
thing else, and that his appointment was
made solely upon social grounds. Office
could not be conferred for party service, but
could be for social reasons. And of such is
civil service reform.
1t is said in railroad circles here that the
recent arrangement By which the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company has agreed to run
fast Southern freight trains will infict q loss
on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto-
mac Railroad, over which the Pennsylvania
Railroad has heretofore done most of its
Southern business.
Mr.. Schuyler Dnryee, tho republican
chief clerk of tho patent ofiice was not re-
moved, as stated il this correspondence at
the time, but resigned of his own free will.